huuugebet Dick Van Dyke, Approaching 99, Dances in Coldplay’s Latest Video
Dick Van Dyke, the lithe and witty nonagenarian whose career spans more than seven decadeshuuugebet, has added yet another role to his lengthy résumé: music video star.
Dancing barefoot in the backyard of his Malibu, Calif., home, Van Dyke, 98, is the focus of Coldplay’s latest music video, “All My Love.”
Van Dyke, who starred on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” from 1961 to 1966 and danced his way through “Mary Poppins” 60 years ago, pulls out some of his signature dance moves while the band’s frontman Chris Martin plays an upright piano.
The video, directed by Spike Jonze and Mary Wigmore, was filmed in October. A directors’ cut that lasts more than seven minutes came out on Friday; a shorter version will be released Dec. 13 on Van Dyke’s 99th birthday.
Van Dyke, who is introduced with a title card noting that he was born in 1925, gamely pokes fun at his age, including when a voice asks him to close his eyes and think of the people who meant something to him. He does, and then opens them. “I’m too old for this — I’ll pass out and go to sleep,” he says, adding, with a mischievous chuckle, “I’ll take a nap!”
Martin said Thursday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that it was his and Jonze’s idea to cast Van Dyke in the video. Martin said that he and Van Dyke are neighbors, and that they had met several years ago.
“This really may be the most fun thing I’ve ever done,” Martin said of the video. “It makes me so grateful. It’s a big deal for me.”
In the video, photographs of Van Dyke’s family and from his long career — including a picture with Mary Tyler Moore, his co-star on the “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” and “Mary Poppins” memorabilia — flash on the screen. Van Dyke, in a suit and tie but no shoes, dances and shows of some of his old comic moves.
Many scenes show his wife, Arlene Silver, and his family gathered around him. And at times he grows thoughtful, meditating on aging, family and love. “I’m acutely aware that I’m, you know, could go any day now but I don’t know why it doesn’t concern me,” Van Dyke says. “I’m not afraid of it. I have that feeling, totally against anything intellectual, that I’m going to be all right.”
Van Dyke adds that he had been lucky to be able to “play and act silly” for a living.huuugebet